Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-09-09

says that the cost of rrebuilding and re-
pairing is &4l00O0O. of which Charleston
spent s3O)lOO0. In the past year 5000
buildings have been rebuilt or repaired
and 2l7 new buildings have been erected.
/ In an interview recently Robert i. Lin
coin said: IL simply could not accept the
nomination TO the presidency. To
take any office at all would be a great sac
riflce of my business interests. i most
certainly should not accept the nomina'
ton for the presidency were 1t ten
dered"
Word from Yavapai county, Arizona,
says that Sheriff Mulvernon was shot in a
recent encounter 90 miles south OF Tue
son, five. of his deputy sheriffs being also
wounded. Eleven outlaws were also killed.
Mulvernon and his posse had been after II
men implicated in the murder Of three
cowboys.
The president has appointed Prof. G..
| Browne Goode. assistant director OF the
national museum, TO be commissioner OF
fish and fisheries, vice Prof. 5. +. Baird,
| deceased. Judge McCue, solicitor of the
treasury, who was first tend cred the Office,
declined il because of his lack of scientific
|
knowledge.
The scaffolding Of the new Annuncia-
ton Catholic church, at Wlliamsport,
Pa gave way the other morning and four
mon fell about sixty feet to the ground
Raphael Baka and Charles Marbst were
killed and John Winner and Thomas Raib-
icy we-c SO badly injured that they died
before night.
The engine OF the east bound Lead1illie
express vent through the Beaver Greek
bridge between Sadida, Mo, and Pueblo,
killing Engine Shaw and two others,
one being - tramp, with several wounded
The accident vas due to large rock faal-
ing from tina side of the canon, crushing
through the bridge.
The first litigation growing out of the
Chatsworth horror crops out in the shape
Of nineteen damage suit, aggregating
Sl27, 800, which have been begun in the cir
cult court at Chats worth Ten are for
5000 each, ali death cases. The other
are for in uries and demand various sum,
reaching in one Instance $4,000.
Douglass f. Carlin, chief c.erk at the
Cheyenne Agency, was married in Pierre
Dakota, the other day, to Maiden Duprest'
the wealthiest Indian heiress on the Sioux
reservation. Car.in Is closely connecte
with prominent army officers, aud with
the Carlns of Illinois. Over 1909 Indians
witnessed the ceremony and the festivi-
ties lasted three days
At the junction of the Leavenworth
branch Of the Union Pacific with tho main
line, some miles from Lawrence, Kansas.
a coal train on the line from Leavenworth
plunged from the trek dow an embank-
ment. The engineer, j. Mundinen of Wa
mengo, wa, instantly killed. The fireman
Frank Davis, received inju ries from which
he died a few hours later a brakeman.
Tom Brown, was also killed. The cause
was a misplaced switch
Justice Field of tho United States Su
preme Court has rendered a decision at
San Francisco declining 10 make an order
compelling Senator = .anford and others to
answer questions propounded by the Paci-
f. railroad commission. and also refu ed TO
give the commission access TO the book
Of certain construction companies. The
decision declares that that part Of the act
creating the commission which refers to
courts is unconstitutional